Chapter 2

Within the thick white smoke, Kiagi planned his movements carefully. Where are you, Ranma? He thought to himself as he braced for an attack with every turn. Closing his eyes, he focused his energy in the hopes of finding his opponent. But alas, Ranma's energy was nowhere to be found. He must be using his little invisibility trick again. Luckily, I have a plan for such an occasion.

Kiagi then pushed out his energy further across the stage and into the crowd. As it hit each person in the audience, the energy bounced its way back to Kiagi and then bounced back into the crowd.

"Did you feel that? Mu Tsu said leaning forward to speak to Ryoga. Ryoga nodded nervously as he stared into the fog. "It was like Kiagi just pushed my heart." He said placing his hand on his chest. "What do you think he's up to?"

"No idea." Mu Tsu answered. "Perhaps he's trying to push Ranma out of the ring."

"No way." Ryoga said shaking his head. "Even he's not strong enough to do that."

Just then, a gold ball of light shot through the smoke across the stage and exploded at the other side of the platform blowing all the fog away with its shockwave. As the smoke cleared, Ranma was finally spotted lying in a smoking crater. His clothes, tattered and torn, were still smoking as a result of Kiagi's energy blast. On the other side of the stage Kiagi's hand smouldered as he began to smile with satisfaction. "Gotcha!" he said chuckling slightly.

"I don't believe it, Saotome!" Soun said in shock. "How on earth did he find Ranma?"

"I don't know, Tendo." Genma said with a puzzled look on his face. "The boy was still using the Umi-Sen-Ken. He should have been completely invisible.

Ranma was in shock as he stood up and dusted himself off. "I don't understand." He said examining his now destroyed shirt. "How the heck did you do that? I was invisible."

"Invisible, but not gone." Kiagi said "It's true, you were impossible to see or sense so you would have left me blind. This is why I decided to even the playing field. But then of course, we were both blind and eventually one of us would have fallen out of the ring."

"Yeah, things could have gone horribly wrong there, Kiagi." Ranma said grinning. "Not your best idea."

"Indeed." Kiagi answered "Which is why I decided to find you. So I extended my aura throughout the entire arena so that I could see without my eyes. You may not have been giving off any energy, but you body is still made of solid matter. Matter which can repel my aura back to me and give away your position."

"Sonar." Akane said taking in what her employer said and figuring it out for herself and Kaori. "He used his battle aura like a sonar signal to find you father." Kaori tilted her head in confusion. "What's sonar, mom?" she asked turning around to face her mother.

"It's what submarines use to find their way around in the water." Akane explained. "Bats do it too in the forest at night because they're blind."

"So that's how you did it?" Ranma said tearing away his ruined shirt. "Well you're just full of surprises, ain't ya?"

"That's my style." Kiagi said"I always like to keep you on your toes. Are you ready to go again?"

"Damn straight." Ranma said, cracking his knuckles before launching himself towards his opponent at lightning speed. Throwing his hands in front of him, Kiagi tried to block what he thought was going to be a punch. But instead, he was surprised to see blood flying from his arms like a fountain at first but the steady trickle dripping from his elbows.

What on earth? He thought to himself recoiling from Ranma's attack and staring at the deep cuts in his arms. He can switch to Cat-Fist at will now? Incredible.

"So you've finally mastered it then?" Kiagi asked staring at the blood on his wrists "I must say, I honestly didn't think it was possible. You truly are one of a kind, Ranma."

Ranma simply grinned and moved himself into an attacking stance. "Surprised you didn't I" he asked as he began to strafe around his opponent like a cat playing with a mouse. Little did he know that this particular mouse had sharper teeth than expected.

"Indeed you did" Kiagi said raising his hand and conjuring a ball of energy. "But I have a few surprises of my own left."

He then threw the ball into the air and took a deep breath as he waited for it to come back down. Hopefully, this won't mess me up too badly. He thought to himself as he prepared to take the full force of the oncoming energy. The collision caused a massive shockwave of light and heat which soon began to dominate the fighting stage. I don't like the looks of this Ranma thought to himself as he watched Kiagi's silhouette disappear in the light.